Econometric Model of India de Ramgopal Agarwala

Econometric Model of India

Ramgopal Agarwala

First Published in 1970. Econometric model-building, on the other hand, has been largely confined to the advanced industrialised countries. In the few cases where macro-models have been built for underdeveloped countries (e.g. the Narasimham model (112) for India) the underlying assumptions have been largely of the Keynesian type, and thus in the authors opinion unconnected with the theory of economic development. This study is a modest attempt at econometric model-building on the basis of a model of development of an underdeveloped country.

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Part 1 Introduction: the macro-model; the data; the outline. Part 2 A theory of stagnation and growth: a macro-model in a closed economy; money in growth; growth and the foreign sector; the summary. Part 3 The statistical form of the model: production functions; employment functions; investment functions; money, wages and prices; miscellaneous equations; the model as a whole; method of estimation of the parameters of the model - ordinary least squares v. simultaneous equation methods. Part 4 Production and employment: agricultural production function; food-grains production function; employment function; non-agricultural production function. Part 5 Money, wages and prices: the money supply and the absolute price level; money wages and prices; miscellaneous price equations. Part 6 Investment and foreign trade: investment in the agricultural sector; investment in non-agricultural sector; foreign trade sector. Part 7 Summary of the results: the model; the test statistics; results of simultaneous equation methods. Part 8 Applications of the model - a simulation approach: a note on simulation approach; prediction within and beyond the sample; planning for a target rate of growth; analysis of the effects of variation in exogenous variables. Part 9 A note on India's third five year plan. Appendix - the compilation of the data.